Dismembered in 0.1 Seconds — Byford Dolphin Accident Explained
<p>In the wake of the <a href="https://col-jung.medium.com/crushed-in-0-02-seconds-titans-terrifying-implosion-explained-dafb3b287582" rel="noopener">2023 Titan implosion,</a> another disaster of a similar flavour has returned to the fore: the <strong>Byford Dolphin accident</strong> in 1983.</p>
<p>Regarded as an astonishingly brutal industrial incident, the lives of four <strong>saturation divers</strong> working on a Norwegian oil rig perished in a horrifying instant — their blood <em>flash-boiled</em> as the dissolved gases in their bodies and bloodstreams expanded 9-fold.</p>
<p>They exploded from the inside out — quite literally.</p>
<p>It gets <em>worse.</em></p>
<p>One of the poor chaps — violently blasted through a small hatch — was gruesomely torn to pieces, spraying the deck with gory torrent.</p>
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<p>British diver Roy Lucas and tender Billy Crammond both met a violent end on the Byford Dolphin</p>
<p>Like the five Titanic explorers, these five industrial workers from a generation earlier were victims of a catastrophic failure.</p>
<p>They were all very dead, very fast and in a very unpleasant manner.</p>
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